LEI Electronics 6 manual Saving a GPS Data File

•In a hurry? You can erase a route by deleting each waypoint, one after the other. Click the CENTER MASTER MAP button, then move the cross-hair pointer over a route waypoint and right-click. In the pop- up menu, click the DELETE WAYPOINT command. MapCreate erases the waypoint and the magenta line linking the waypoint to the route.

Now that you've created all the GPS information you want, you need to prepare it for use in your GPS unit. We'll do that in the next lesson, "Saving a GPS Data File."

Saving a GPS Data File

GPS Data Files can contain any combination of GPS information, including waypoints, event marker icons, routes and trails. MapCreate and your GPS unit store all their GPS data in the same file format, so it's easy to move this information back and forth. Here's how: (Refer as needed to the Toolbar figure on page 30.)

1.Click the SAVE GPS DATA FILE button. The Save As dialog box appears.

Save GPS Data File dialog box.

2.Type a name in the File Name text box, select your card reader's drive letter in the SAVE IN text box, and click SAVE.

Congratulations, you've made your first GPS Data File! The file was placed directly on your MMC or Secure Digital card. If you wish to keep the file on your hard drive, use Windows Explorer and your MMC card reader to copy the GPS Data File to the "data" sub-folder located within the MapCreate folder on your hard drive. You can now start another GPS Data File (click NEW GPS DATA FILE button) or you can close

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